Events
Events
PhD+ Workshop – Stop #disserhating, Start Writing
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesNot sure how to begin your dissertation work? Having a hard time fitting writing in amidst other obligations? Stuck in the middle of your process? Huh, what process? 8th-year PhD candidate struggling to finish? In this interactive workshop, PhD students at all stages will have the opportunity to anonymously submit questions and concerns about the […]
Hong-An Truong: Refugee Returns
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesUsing photography, video, and sound installation, Hong-An Truong engages questions about history and how knowledge is produced through media forms. Often drawing on her lived experience as the daughter of Vietnamese […]
Carlos Motta – We The Enemy
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn We The Enemy, Carlos Motta will present a series of recent and past works, including those exhibited at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery. Motta’s work documents the social conditions […]
SOLD OUT: Chast and Marx – You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples
DNA Comedy Lab 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes the bestselling team of New Yorker illustrator Roz Chast and New Yorker contributor Patricia Marx for a presentation of their hilarious illustrated guide to love and […]
Kenyon Branon: Locality and Anti-Locality – Two Case Studies
Humanities 1, Room 202Much work in syntax suggests that there is a strong preference --- given two or more options --- for shorter dependencies over longer dependencies, often referred to as a locality condition. Cases where these conditions are apparently violated are therefore a general topic of interest. This talk presents two case studies of apparent violations of locality in […]
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
FeaturedMusic Center Recital Hall - UCSC 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present the inaugural event in the Beyond the End of the World series. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an award-winning […]
Public Fellowship Info Session
Humanities 1, Room 402Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you're thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI's Public Fellowship program. Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute […]
Kate McDonald – The Society of Wheels: Rethinking the History of Technology and Labor in Modern Japan
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesHumans power transport. This is obviously true for the early twentieth century. It's easy to find images of rickshaws on city streets in Tokyo and other major cities in Asia. […]
Public Fellowship Info Session
Humanities 1, Room 402Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you're thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI's Public Fellowship program. Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute […]
Robert Nichols – Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn his recent publication, Theft is Property! (Duke 2020), Robert Nichols reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of examining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights […]